New Paintball Field review "Gold Dragon PB" in Upstate South Carolina

[cphilip]

Bringing this back up to make a couple announcements.

AO DAY SC will be Nov 9th

We are in final negotiations with Gold Dragon (this field) and it seems good at this point.
Hope to formal announce this all this week in a seperate thread dedicated to this.

Paintball Inc. is penciled in waiting final word and will be supplying PowerBall at $50 a case to you.

Paintball Inc is letting us use their Sup Air Field too! So there will be super air of some kind!

Paintball Inc supplying some Raffle stuff too.

We are almost to the point where we can ask Celebrites for attendance and they will be announced as soon as we can.

3 Man Tourney on one field only will be held and a small entry fee for it will be seperate from registration. It will be small and only to cover trophies presented. Note that this leaves two five man fields and the woods open for rec play all the time. Tourney rules are being drafted and will be published long before you get here.

Planning a nice sit down dinner with band that night after the play day which *will be included* in the registration. All day Air and field fee also includedin the registration. Target for this registration is around $20-25 FOR EVERYTHING!!! Note: except 3 man and your paint which is/will be reasonable.

[Cabbagetoe]

Killer Field

Some buddies and I went to Gold Dragon Paintball on Saturday. First impression--WOW. This field is by far the nicest I've ever played, and I have played at approximately 8 fields in and around South Carolina. The owners really want to do everything to make the customer happy, unlike other fields who are only trying to make a buck. If you haven't played this field, and you live in the upstate, my only question is--- What are you waiting for?? If you want to play on the premier field in the upstate--Gold Dragon Paintball is it!!!

Cabbage

[Mossman]

Originally posted by shartley

Of course SHartley...but a lot of us wish we were middle aged with a good job too

The people who complain are not the responsible folks with a good job, family, and great connection to this board like you. I prefer the middle ground

[cphilip]

HOLY MOLEY!

Went out to Gold Draggon this afternoon and its been like over 6 weeks since I took those pictures. LOTS of things are done that you didn't see last time. For one thing the player set up areas are expanded maybe double. More tables and such...

BUT...

The main things is the progress that has been made on the Hill CHallenge field . Still not completely done but much more stuff is there now. It was very early when you last saw it. I going to go back and get some pictures in the next few days but let me at least try and descibe it for now. All the sand bagged bunkers have now been dug out very deep behind and shored up. Nice big pits. And there is plans to place large culvert pipe between some of these fortified pit bunkers to make tunnels to cross over to them. And they have built several very large house like structures on the top and bottom covered with Bamboo latice. Sort of looks like a far east village. Very large staging areas they make. A cool thing that they decided to add at the top of the hill to the right of that main fort is a tower with siren and revovling red light. If you can take the top of the hill and rush past the fort and hit the button its over. This all plays into the use of the hill as part of the whole adjoining woods for Scenario play. You can extend it into this hill area if you like. YOu realy do need to see picutures of this. I will try and get some this weekend. I cannot describe it well but you are gonna be impressed with the progress and of course more of it will be done before we get there on Nov 9th at SC AO day

Stay tuned I have over 50-60 people already committed to come even this early!!! LOOKS LIKE WE GONNA BE BIG!!!! make your plans to get here now...Look for registration to start soon!!!!

[cphilip]

Some people have asked...4500 psi fills? YOU BET!

Food for the day time a the field? yes I think the field is doing hot dogs and such and has plenty of vending stuff.

Paint? well real good Powerball Pearl for $50 a case. No we will not run out. We are overbuying as we can take back unsold cases for no charge so no reason to short on it. This is FatMan and my personal choice for paint when we play. Very consistent medium bore and breaks well. We use .689 bores with it. Takes a temerature change real well too.

Dinner? Included in registration. Nice authentic Italian we think. this place is Closing to public just for us. We got the whole place. Should nail that down in the next day or two. Hope that will work out. Will hear soon.

Tourney? yes a 3 man on the 3 man field. All other fields open to pick up play all day. Figure to start at 9 and play till about 6 pm. Then clean up and meet for dinner and party.

Band is supposed to be The Wild Hog band. Personal friends of ours. More on them later but: They will be moving from table to table for a few song each area. Very versatile group of musicians been together for 10 years. Features the 2000 National Banjo Championship winner this takes place out in Winfield Kansas and he also won the East coast "Merle Fest" Championship that year before. You will hear Jazz, Blues, Folk, Dawg music, Garcia, Traditional and newgrass,... you name it. Your gonna like this here stuff!!!

[joeyjoe367]

Wow! That looks really great! I wish we had some fields here in Washington that are that clean and well-prepared.

$50/case paint sounds awesome too

[cphilip]

Further development of the field has occured since this review. See them here:

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49290